Similar Item Strategies

Similar products strategies return recommendations that are similar to the object the customer is viewing or has added to the cart. These strategies are meant to give customers more options for what they are looking at in order to pick the best product that fits their specific needs.

Strategy

Strategy ID

Sample Message

Description

Instrumentation Page Types

Required Parameters

ClickEV

10002

"People Who Viewed <product name="name"> Also Viewed"</product>

Products that other customers have viewed given that they viewed this product. This strategy is biased towards recommending high-ticket products.

Item

None

ClickCP

4

"People Who Viewed <this product="product"> Also Viewed"</this>

Products that other customers have viewed given that they viewed this product.

Item

None

MultiItemViewCP

80

"People Who Viewed <these products="products"> Also Viewed"</these>

Uses multiple seed products in the current context and merges the products from each seed into one result.

Cart, Add to Cart

None

ViewedPurchased

14

"People Who Viewed <product name="name"> Ultimately Bought"</product>

Products that other customers have purchased given that they viewed this product.

Item, Cart

None

ViewPurchasedPercent

18

"What Did People Who Viewed <product name="name"> Ultimately Buy?"</product>

The percentage of customers that have purchased other products given that they have viewed this product.

Note: Requires special layout that exposes conversion % for each recommended product representing the % of times the product is purchased when product seed is viewed

Item, Cart

None

CategorySiloedViewCP

113

"People Who Viewed <this product="product"> Also Viewed..."</this>

Recommendations of products that are related to the user's most frequently viewed or purchased product; informs the customer of suitable products for comparison shopping; will only recommend products that belong to the same categories the seed product belongs to.

Item

Category Id

CategorySiloedViewPurchaseCP

112

"People Who Viewed <this product="product"> Ultimately Bought <these products="products"> From <this category="category">" (category is variable)</this></these></this>

Products that are likely to be purchased by customers who looked at similar products.

Item

Category Id

LeastExpensiveViewedPurchased

192

"People Who Viewed <this product="product"> Ultimately Purchased></this></segment>

The lowest priced products of those that are frequently bought with the given product.

Item

None

MultiItemViewPurchaseCP

84

"People Who Viewed <these products="products"> Also Bought"</these>

Uses multiple seed products in the current context and merges the products from each seed into one result. This recommends products that are ultimately purchased by customers who view the product seed.

MultiItem strategies do not require multiple seeds in order to be eligible, they are simply able to use multiple seeds when available.

Item, Cart, Add to Cart

None

SimilarProducts

183

"People Who Viewed <product name="name"> Also Like"</product>

Identifies products that are similar to the seed products by using contextual clues from the catalog feed. It doesn't rely on any traffic data (such as views, clicks, or purchases) to function effectively.

Note: Supports the analysis of catalogs with less than 500,000 products. Currently, it is not compatible with catalogs that exceed this product limit.

Item

None

ClickCPAttributeFiltered

163

"People Who Viewed <this product="product"> Also Viewed"</this>

Products that other customers have viewed given that they viewed this product filtered at the attribute level.

Item

Attribute